Normalizing Lunacy

 CONSIDERING THAT  there are five hundred an thirty five members of Congress, and considering the nature of the American electorate, it should hardly seem surprising that the occasional nut case ascends to  a position of political leadership atop Capitol hill. The newest nut case, Marjorie Taylor Green, has expressed a desire to kill Democrats, has expressed admiration for members of Q-Anon, believes that many of the mass murders in America's schools did not happen, but were fake news, has expressed anti-Semitism, and fully embraces the big lie, that the election was stolen from Trump. that should add up to enough to get her confined to a mental institution, but not elected to Congress. Nonetheless, Republicans in general seem good to go with it. The lady is merely expressing her constitutional right of free speech.The House minority leader says that he had a word with her,  in private, and that's that.No word on what the word was. Probably advice to tone down her truth telling around those radical intolerant Democrats. It is hard not to notice that Marjorie's lunacy is not at all out of step with mainstream conservative republican thought, and with the Trump crowd. Bear in mind that over one third of Republicans believe that storming the Capitol was a good idea, and that two thirds of them believe that the election was actually stolen from Trump. The Republican party is where nut cases come home to roost. the Republican party is stark, raving mad, and getting worse by the day. It is entirely predictable that this delusional woman will not only be allowed to keep her seat in Congress, will not be expelled, but that she will be allowed to rise to a position of leadership with in the Goofy Old Party, and will perhaps even become the front runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.Her views are the views of most mainstream conservative Republicans. She has issued no apology for her bad behavior, expressed no regrets, and cannot be expected to do so.  The republican party, the conservative movement, and the Christian support base for Donald Trump is becoming more extremist, more violent, more unhinged every day. Each time a Democrat is elected president, America's conservatives become irrational. They formed the citizen militia movement when Clinton was elected, the Tea party when Obama was elected, with their guns, Bibles, and demands for lower taxes for the wealthy and refusal to acknowledge climate change, and now its Biden's turn, and the maniacs are even now beginning to manifest, once again.